James Rebhorn
Highest Rated: 92% Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Lowest Rated: 4% The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
Birthday: Sep 1, 1948
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
One of America's most recognizable character actors, James Rebhorn was a veteran of over 100 television shows, feature films, and plays. While best known for portraying lawyers, politicians, doctors, and military men, he delivered equally notable performances in a variety of other roles, including that of a brutal serial killer on NBC's Law & Order, a shipping magnate in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and a comically doomed restaurateur in Billy Morrisette's Scotland, PA (2001).Born in Philadelphia, PA, on September 1, 1948, Rebhorn moved to Anderson, IN, as a child. A devout Lutheran, he attended the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Wittenburg University in Ohio, where he studied political science. After graduating in 1970, Rebhorn moved to New York City, where he earned a Master's of Fine Arts in acting from Columbia University's School of the Arts and joined the metropolitan theater scene.After making his television debut on the NBC soap opera The Doctors in 1977, Rebhorn starred on Another World: Texas and The Guiding Light, as well as earned a 1989 Soap Opera Digest Award for his performance as Henry Lange on As the World Turns. He displayed his comic talents during a recurring role on Kate and Allie, and in an unforgettable turn as the district attorney who jails the Seinfeld gang in the show's final episode. He also garnered recurring roles on some of television's most heralded dramas -- including Law & Order, Third Watch, Now and Again, and The Practice -- and memorable telefilms -- including Sarah, Plain and Tall (1981), North and South (1985), Skylark (1993), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), and A Bright Shining Lie (1998).Rebhorn's feature-film career began in the early '80s with roles such as "Lawyer" in Soup for One (1982), "Los Alamos Doctor" in Silkwood (1983), and "Drunken Business Man" in Cat's Eye (1985). As the decade progressed, his parts increased in importance and he emerged in the '90s as an established supporting actor with roles in several high-profile films. After appearing in 1991's Regarding Henry with Harrison Ford and Annette Bening, Rebhorn gave stand-out performances opposite Marisa Tomei and Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny (1992), Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct (1992), Chris O'Donnell and Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman (1992), and Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte in Lorenzo's Oil (1992). He went on to earn prominent roles in Carlito's Way (1993), Guarding Tess (1994), I Love Trouble (1994), Up Close & Personal (1996), Independence Day (1996), If Lucy Fell (1996), and My Fellow Americans (1996). Rebhorn rounded out the '90s by playing the mysterious Consumer Recreation Services representative in The Game (1997), the prosecuting attorney in Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), and Jude Law's shipping magnate father in the above-mentioned The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). The new millennium saw him starring as Robert De Niro's future in-law in Meet the Parents (2000) and a modern-day version of Macbeth's Duncan in the above-mentioned Scotland, PA, before gearing up for the Eddie Murphy sci-fi vehicle The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002), and Todd Haynes' long-awaited return to directing, Far From Heaven (2002).Towards the end of his career, Rebhorn returned to television, playing recurring characters on several different shows, playing the CEO of Abbadon Industries on HBO's Enlightened, an FBI special agent on USA's White Collar and, his final role, Carrie Mathison's father on Showtime's Homeland.While juggling his film and television work, Rebhorn frequently returned to the stage. He appeared at the Manhattan Theater Club, Playwright's Horizons, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the LaJolla Playhouse, the Ensemble Studio Theater, and Lincoln Center. In 2002, he earned rave reviews for his performance in the Roundabout Theater's production of Arthur Miller's first play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, with Chris O'Donnell and Samantha Mathis.Rebhorn was diagnosed
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | The Perfect Wedding | Richard Fowler | — | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Before I Sleep | Actor | — | 2013 |
| 84% | Sleepwalk With Me | Frank Pandamiglio | $2.3M | 2012 |
| 60% | Real Steel | Marvin | $85.5M | 2011 |
| 38% | Don McKay | Dr. Lance Pryce | — | 2010 |
| 44% | The Box | Norm Cahill | $114.9M | 2009 |
| 16% | Spinning Into Butter | Winston Garvey | — | 2009 |
| 16% | An American Affair | Lucian Carver | — | 2009 |
| 58% | The International | Arnie | $25.5M | 2009 |
| 63% | Baby Mama | Judge | $60.3M | 2008 |
| 27% | Anamorph | Brainard | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Comanche Moon | Gov. Elisha Pease | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Bernard and Doris | Waldo Taft | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Candles on Bay Street | John Frieden | — | 2006 |
| 59% | How to Eat Fried Worms | Boiler Head | $13.1M | 2006 |
| 62% | The Last Shot | Abe White | $0.4M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Reversible Errors | Actor | — | 2004 |
| 70% | Cold Mountain | Doctor | — | 2003 |
| 88% | Far From Heaven | Dr. Bowman | $16M | 2003 |
| 30% | Head of State | Senator Bill Arnot | $37.8M | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | The Trade | Actor | — | 2003 |
| 4% | The Adventures of Pluto Nash | Belcher | $4.4M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy & Isabelle | Avery Clark | — | 2001 |
| 59% | Scotland, Pa. | Norm Duncan | $0.3M | 2001 |
| 84% | Meet the Parents | Larry Banks | $164.5M | 2000 |
| 43% | The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | President Signoff | $0.5M | 2000 |
| 83% | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Herbert Greenleaf | — | 1999 |
| 39% | Snow Falling on Cedars | Alvin Hooks | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End | William Wheaton | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Marriage Material | Bill Holbeck | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | A Bright Shining Lie | Ambassador | — | 1998 |
| 73% | The Game | Jim Feingold | — | 1997 |
| 47% | My Fellow Americans | Charlie Reynolds | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | Mistrial | Mayor Taylor | — | 1996 |
| 65% | Independence Day | Albert Nimziki | — | 1996 |
| 18% | If Lucy Fell | Simon Ackerman | — | 1996 |
| 31% | Up Close & Personal | John Merino | — | 1996 |
| 60% | White Squall | Tyler | — | 1996 |
| 61% | How to Make an American Quilt | Actor | — | 1995 |
| 22% | I Love Trouble | The Thin Man | — | 1994 |
| 57% | Guarding Tess | Howard Shaeffer | — | 1994 |
| 31% | 8 Seconds | Clyde Frost | — | 1994 |
| 9% | Blank Check | Fred Waters | — | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | JFK: Reckless Youth | St. John | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Skylark | William Wheaton | — | 1993 |
| 81% | Carlito's Way | Norwalk | — | 1993 |
| 92% | Lorenzo's Oil | Ellard Muscatine | — | 1992 |
| 88% | Scent of a Woman | Mr. Trask | — | 1992 |
| 44% | White Sands | Flynn | — | 1992 |
| 53% | Basic Instinct | Dr. McElwaine | — | 1992 |
| 50% | Shadows and Fog | Vigilante | — | 1992 |
| 86% | My Cousin Vinny | George Wilbur | — | 1992 |
| 50% | Wind | George | — | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | Deadly Matrimony | Lt. Lloyd Butler | — | 1992 |
| 41% | Regarding Henry | Dr. Sultan | — | 1991 |
| 80% | Sarah, Plain and Tall | William Wheaton | — | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | Mob Justice | Actor | — | 1991 |
| 36% | Desperate Hours | Prosecutor | — | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | Heart of Midnight | Richard | — | 1988 |
| 67% | The House on Carroll Street | The Official | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Rockabye | Arthur Reardon | — | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | A Deadly Business | Corbett | — | 1986 |
| 74% | Silkwood | Los Alamos Doctor | — | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | Will: G. Gordon Liddy | Peter Maroulis | — | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | Soup for One | Lawyer | — | 1982 |
| 22% | He Knows You're Alone | Professor | — | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | Boy of Pigs | Actor | — |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 94% |
The Good Wife 2009-2016 |
Wilkes |
2013 |
| 87% |
Enlightened 2011-2013 |
Charles Szidon |
2013 2011 |
| 96% |
White Collar 2009-2014 |
Reese Huges Reese Hughes |
2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 |
| 48% |
Coma 2012 |
Oren |
2012 |
| 33% |
Made in Jersey 2012 |
Judge Hudnut |
2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Blue Bloods 2010 |
Archbishop McGovern |
2012 2011 |
| 85% |
Homeland 2011 |
Frank Mathison |
2012 2011 |
| 85% |
30 Rock 2006-2013 |
Dr. Kaplan |
2010 |
| 43% |
Big Lake 2010 |
Carl Franklin |
2010 |
| 92% |
Royal Pains 2009-2016 |
Will |
2009 |
| 86% |
Boston Legal 2004-2008 |
Wade Mathis |
2008 |
| 58% |
Canterbury's Law 2008 |
Dr. Allen Petch |
2008 |
| No Score Yet |
Comanche Moon 2008 |
Gov. Elisha Pease |
2008 |
| No Score Yet |
Law & Order 1990-2010 |
Albert Cheney Albert Lawrence Cheney Charles Gamett Charles Garnett Hanson Dr. Garrison |
2008 2002 2001 1999 1997 1995 1992 |
| 74% |
The Knights of Prosperity 2007 |
Harrison Plunk |
2007 |
| 54% |
The Book of Daniel 2006 |
Bertrum Webster |
2006 |
| 18% |
Hack 2002-2004 |
Richard Farrel |
2003 |
| No Score Yet |
The Practice 1997-2004 |
John Rapherson |
2001 |
| No Score Yet |
UC: Undercover 2001-2002 |
Warden Petrocelli |
2001 |
| 100% |
Now and Again 1999-2000 |
Gen. Irving |
2000 |
| No Score Yet |
Third Watch 1999-2005 |
Capt. Elchisak |
2000 1999 |
| No Score Yet |
From the Earth to the Moon 1998 |
Storms Harrison Storms |
1998 |
| 88% |
Seinfeld 1989-1998 |
D.A. Hoyt |
1998 1993 |
| No Score Yet |
New York Undercover 1994-1998 |
Tucker |
1997 |
| No Score Yet |
Kate & Allie 1984-1989 |
Derek Kate's Former Boyfriend |
1986 1985 |
QUOTES FROM James Rebhorn CHARACTERS
Jim Feingold says: What are you gonna do, anyway? You won't get your money back.
Nicholas Van Orton says: I don't care about money. I'm pulling back the curtain. I want to meet the wizard.
Mr. Trask says: Mr. Simms your are a cover-up artsist and you are a liar.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade says: But not a snitch!
Mr. Trask says: Excuse me !?
Mr. Trask says: Excuse me?
Lt. Col. Frank Slade says: No I don't think I will !
Lt. Col. Frank Slade says: No I don't think I will!
Herbert Greenleaf says: People say you can't choose your parents, but I believe you can't choose your children.
Principal Burdock says: "Billy Forrester." With two Rs.
Principal Burdock says: Billy Forrester. With two R's.
Billy Forrester says: There's three.
Principal Burdock says: I beg your pardon?
Billy Forrester says: There's three Rs.
Billy Forrester says: There's three R's.
Principal Burdock says: Ally oop.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade says: Well, gentlemen! When the shit hits the fan, some guys run and some guys stay. Here's Charlie facin' the fire and there's George hidin' in Big Daddy's pocket. And what are you doin'? You're gonna reward George and destroy Charlie.
Mr. Trask says: Are you finished, Mr. Slade?
Lt. Col. Frank Slade says: No, I'm just gettin' warmed up!
Mr. Trask says: Mr. Simms, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade says: But not a snitch!
Mr. Trask says: Excuse me?
Lt. Col. Frank Slade says: No, I don't think I will.